The Family Dinner Table

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(L. to r.) Kiera, 14, Chris, Nate, 12, Julia, 11, Kelly and John, 9 say a prayer before dinner at their home in Moorestown, New Jersey. Chris and Kelly Dalmass eat dinner with their four children every day during the week and have a larger, extended family dinner most Sundays. Ann Hermes/Staff

Julia eyes her serving of chicken. Ann Hermes/Staff

A father shows his son how to chop onions. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File

Rosa Gallegos (front l.) mixes the filling for gorditas while her son, Omar, gets dishes ready for a Saturday dinner in San Ysidro, Calif. Four generations of the family eat dinner together regularly. US Census data show that Latinos, on the whole, have family dinners more often than any other demographic group. Max Dolberg/Special to The Christian Science Monitor

Barbara and Bill Walsh say the family dinner is part of the ‘together thing’ they cultivated in their 15 kids, whose favorite dinner was hot dogs with SpaghettiOs. Ann hermes/Staff

The Family Dinner Project teaches the ritual and benefits of family dinner at a lasagna dinner in Lynn, Mass. Joanna Gallagher, a volunteer, guides dessert preparation. Ann Hermes/Staff

Zoya Lipnyagova and her children have dinner at their farmhouse in the village of Kluchi, Russia, November 15, 2011. Ilya Naymushin /Reuters

Carmen Aurora Sastre Castilla (l.) hands her sister Rosa some bread for their sister Antonia (only her hand is visible), as their mother Carmen Castilla, 77, sits while they have dinner next to the family's belongings on the street that has been their home for the past two weeks in Madrid on June 8. Susana Vera/Reuters

Cheng Jun and his wife Deng Qiyan, both migrant workers from southwest China's Sichuan province, have dinner with their three-year-old son Cheng Yuhui, in their 86 square foot dwelling on the outskirts of Beijing, December 27, 2010. Jason Lee/Reuters

Spain's Crown Prince Felipe (l.), delivers a speech during a gala dinner in honor of Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at the Royal Palace in Madrid, March 30, 2011. Alberto Martin/Reuters

Iraqi student Amal Selman shares dinner with roommates and fellow students in their dorm apartment at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) in the Kurdish regional city of Suleimaniyeh, northern Iraq, on June 20, 2011. Scott Peterson/Getty Images/The Christian Science Monitor

Thembile washes dishes while Olga warms up dinner in September of 2009 in Tshepisong, South Africa. Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff/File

There are plenty of Walsh family dinner stories. That's because there are plenty of Walsh kids – 15 of them, born between 1949 and 1968 to Barbara, a former runway model, and Bill, a World War II veteran and insurance company executive, who married in 1948.